read.fitstab: Read FITS Table
In astro: Astronomy Functions, Tools and Routines

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The mid-level function 'read.fitstab' allows FITS binary tables to be read directly into R.

1	read.fitstab(file, hdu = 2, strip = c(" ","'"," "), maxlines = 50000)

`file`	file name
`hdu`	header and data unit to be read
`strip`	lead/trail characters stripped from header 'value' data
`maxlines`	maximum number of header lines

The mid-level function 'read.fitstab' is a wrapper around 'read.fits', and provides a more simplistic output of that routine. Note that the FITS table is usually stored in the 2nd HDU of a FITS file, hence the default setting of hdu for this function.

A matrix of data corresponding to the original FITS table, with column names labelled appropriately.

Lee Kelvin <lee.kelvin@uibk.ac.at>

The astronomy package: astro.

astro documentation built on May 2, 2019, 2:14 a.m.